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Aug. 4th, 2006 09:55 pmThe thread Why Barack Obama can kiss my ass is still going strong.
Steve has managed to make another statement, which, in light of comment to my last post on the issue, seem worth repeating.
Steven Brust ::: (view all by) ::: August 03, 2006, 04:21 PM:
The reason I used those terms (and put them in scare quotes to indicate I was being ironic in referring to religion in general as "backward") is because you defined "all forms of backwardness and superstition" as including (but not being limited to): "belief in a non-material world, all forms of pseudo-science, and all idealogoies that deny the objectivity of material reality."
Okay...scrolling back--yep, I swapped definitions in mid-stream. My apologies. My sincere apologies.
That also explains how you could have made a proposal that struck me so far out into space that I sat there staring at it with my mouth open for a while before I could even begin to reply.
Okay.
Carrie S: You were right, and I was wrong. My statement was easily and naturally interpreted to mean that I considered all forms of religion backward and ignorant. In fact, I do not hold that position.
I prefer my crow medium rare.
That's a nobility I aspire, too.
Steve has managed to make another statement, which, in light of comment to my last post on the issue, seem worth repeating.
Steven Brust ::: (view all by) ::: August 03, 2006, 04:21 PM:
The reason I used those terms (and put them in scare quotes to indicate I was being ironic in referring to religion in general as "backward") is because you defined "all forms of backwardness and superstition" as including (but not being limited to): "belief in a non-material world, all forms of pseudo-science, and all idealogoies that deny the objectivity of material reality."
Okay...scrolling back--yep, I swapped definitions in mid-stream. My apologies. My sincere apologies.
That also explains how you could have made a proposal that struck me so far out into space that I sat there staring at it with my mouth open for a while before I could even begin to reply.
Okay.
Carrie S: You were right, and I was wrong. My statement was easily and naturally interpreted to mean that I considered all forms of religion backward and ignorant. In fact, I do not hold that position.
I prefer my crow medium rare.
That's a nobility I aspire, too.
